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title: Two-Eyes, after looking narrowly at their faces, recognized her two… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Two-Eyes, after looking narrowly at their faces, recognized her two sisters, One-Eye and Three-Eyes, who had come to such great poverty that they were forced to wander about, begging their bread from day to day. Who acts: Two Eyes, One Eye, such great poverty, alms. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stor
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes, sentence 96

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Two-Eyes, after looking narrowly at their faces, recognized her two sisters, One-Eye and Three-Eyes, who had come to such great poverty that they were forced to wander about, begging their bread from day to day.

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**Who acts:** Two Eyes, One Eye, such great poverty, alms · **What happens:** look, recognize, come, force, wander, beg · **To what, where:** Woman, such great poverty, alms, bread

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Two Eyes, One Eye, such great poverty, alms), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg11027:25:96
# text = Two-Eyes, after looking narrowly at their faces, recognized her two sisters, One-Eye and Three-Eyes, who had come to such great poverty that they were forced to wander about, begging their bread from day to day.
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
7	narrowly	narrowly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	recognized	recognize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	acl	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	poverty	poverty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	forced	force	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl:relcl	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	wander	wander	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	_
38	about	about	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	begging	beg	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	35	conj	_	_
41	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
43	from	from	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
45	to	to	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | gerund | Two Eyes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at alms's faces; narrowly *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at face=Theme |
| 2 | **recognize** | past | Two Eyes | Woman |  |  |  | One Eye and Three Eyes *obl* | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | past · perfect | One Eye and Three Eyes |  |  | such great poverty |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to poverty=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **force** | past · passive | such great poverty *not said here* | alms *= alm* |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **wander** | to-infinitive | alms *= alm* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **beg** *speech: request* | gerund | such great poverty *not said here* | alms's bread |  |  | day |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent bread=Recipient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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